6/22/2023 0 Comments Tender is the flesh authorThey are raised on breeding farms, genetically modified to speed their growth, carefully monitored by the Food Standards Agency. Following a virus which has made all contact with animal flesh poisonous to humans, the meat industry has persuaded governments to legalize the breeding and slaughter of people. In the tradition of Brave New World, Never Let Me Go, The Handmaid’s Tale and the film Soylent Green (which it references), Bazterrica’s novel describes a near-future society which de-humanizes certain social groups in conventionally “unthinkable” ways in order to assure its own survival. 16th-century Dutch engraving of cannibalism in Brazil The impact of this paragraph changes drastically when you understand that the word ‘kid’ means ‘a human child’. We’re celebrating because one of them became a father,” he explains. “It’s the most tender kind of meat, there’s only just a little, because a kid doesn’t weigh as much as a calf. El Gringo explains to Egmont that they’ve been preparing it since eight in the morning, “So it melts in your mouth,” and that the guys are actually about to eat a kid. They go to the rest area, where the farmhands are roasting a rack of meat on a cross. It won the prestigious 2017 Clarín de Novela prize for a Spanish-language novel. Book: Tender is the Flesh is the second novel by Argentinian writer Agustina Bazterrica, and her first to be translated into English.
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